Tom Corbett

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett suggested Thursday that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno should have kept his job in 2011 amid the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. "They probably shouldn't have fired him, they probably should've suspended him," Corbett told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "He probably should have been given the last three games, not on the sideline." Penn State's iconic coach was fired Nov. 9, 2011, after announcing earlier that he would retire at the end of the season. Corbett commented on the sanctions against the program after the release of emails from the NCAA that indicated the college governing body tried to...

Republican governors triumphed in key races on Tuesday in the political heavyweight states of Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin, joining the partisan tide that gave Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.
In races shaped by voters'...

The survivalist charged with murdering a Pennsylvania trooper and wounding another was spotted near his old high school carrying a rifle and with mud smeared on his face, police said on Saturday, five weeks after a manhunt for the suspect began. Eric...

An investigation is underway into the death of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania trooper who was shot and killed at a training facility in suburban Philadelphia, the state police commissioner said on Wednesday. Trooper David Kedra, a two-year veteran for the...

President Barack Obama's plan to extend health coverage to millions of poor Americans remains highly contentious, yet it is gaining momentum among several initially reluctant states where financial pragmatism is trumping ideology.
Up to a dozen states,...

PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania's Republican governor called on President Barack Obama on Saturday to intervene to end a transit strike in the greater Philadelphia area and force the two sides to negotiate. The move by Governor Tom Corbett came hours after...

A proposed petrochemical plant in western Pennsylvania would use — and generate — a substantial amount of power. The Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/1IgebDM ) reports that Shell Chemicals' ethane cracker plant proposed for Potter and Center townships...

Editorials from around Pennsylvania: ___ BUDGET TALKS GOING NOWHERE, July 19 It's mid-July, and we're no closer to the governor and state Legislature agreeing on a budget than we were in mid-June ... or mid-May, or mid-April, or mid-whenever. In fact, the...

Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday that he would listen to ways to wipe out a long-term deficit and increase education aid without raising sales or income taxes, but he also insisted that the deficit be addressed honestly and without what he calls "smoke...

Editorials from around Pennsylvania: ___ LIQUOR VETO FOES' TEARS RING HOLLOW, July 6 Those who are crying over the veto that Gov. Tom Wolf used last week to dispose of a controversial bill to privatize the state-controlled sales of wine and liquor are...

After three years of futility, Republicans finally used their majorities in Pennsylvania's state House and Senate to pass their top agenda items: ending the traditional pension benefit in the state's public employee retirement systems and privatizing...

Environmentalists had something in their arsenal for Tuesday's election they never did before: a billionaire benefactor willing to empty his pockets of tens of millions of dollars to bring climate change to the forefront of political debate and elect...

Florida's bitterly tight race for governor is closing with a slight edge to Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist, a new poll indicates.
The survey, by Quinnipiac University, shows Crist leading incumbent Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, 43% to 40%,...

President Obama, who hopes to boost the fortunes of Democratic gubernatorial candidates in some states he carried in 2012, traveled to Maine on Thursday for Mike Michaud, who is in a close three-way race.
The visit came at what could be a turning point...

From Maine to Alaska, nearly a dozen races for governor remain too close to call as the midterm election moves into its final days, an unusually large number that indicates the problems faced by incumbents in both parties at a time of voter discontent.
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Curtis Gibbs of Allentown got a break this month when he went to court for allegedly slapping state Trooper Joe Bushta's horse during Musikfest.
On the day of the hearing, Bushta was among hundreds of troopers assigned to the search for Eric Frein in the...

Florida, the state of the hanging chad, once again has something new for the political world — a race for governor that may be determined by fan interference.
That would be an electric fan, dark brown plastic, less than a foot across. On Wednesday night,...

Students in the Pocono Mountain School District returned to school under tight security Tuesday morning as police continued to search for Eric Frein, the survivalist and military buff accused of fatally shooting one state trooper and seriously wounding...

Shots reportedly were fired Friday night within a mile of the home of Eric Frein, and police reportedly had a house surrounded and were closing in. Northern Monroe County residents were ordered to get indoors and stay away from their windows.
Frein,...